Hacker News: numinix

New comment by numinix in "EverQuest"

numinix — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 18:11:46 +0000

> Gijsbert van der Wal’s famous 2014 photograph of Dutch teenagers ignoring a Rembrandt masterpiece in favor of staring at their phones has become for many psychologists, social theorists, and concerned ordinary folks a portrait of our current Age of Digital Addiction in a nutshell.

While a great photo, to me it looks like the kids are just doing some kind of school / field trip assignment.

New comment by numinix in "From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you.""

numinix — Thu, 08 May 2025 21:48:19 +0000

Sending every new user an email with a "very personal welcome" and audio message for example.

New comment by numinix in "From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you.""

numinix — Thu, 08 May 2025 21:39:12 +0000

He probably only knew him as Shayman

New comment by numinix in "The Egg (By Andy Weir)"

numinix — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:38:40 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoUMY-I_m7c

This was my introduction to it!

New comment by numinix in "Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app"

numinix — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:07:34 +0000

I like the idea! The different scratch pads are cool. But I'm always a bit worried with localStorage of losing my work, is that a fair concern?

If you're looking for feedback, you could consider:

- Host the javascript and fonts yourself, only downsides (privacy, slower) in using a CDN. Ko-fi, Google fonts, Google analytics, Cloudflare, Bootstrapcdn, Numoh -- are all these entities required for note taking?

- Excessive user analytics: Google Analytics is not configured for privacy. Also another Numoh Analytics, but that seems disabled at the moment?

- A pretty writing experience helps me stay in a flow. Nothing wrong with Arial 16px #000, but not inviting either. There is still a lot to win from a typography perspective.

- The saving to .txt is nice, but I'd want a plain text (or markdown) version, no html. Also would be nice if the filename was optimized (scratchpad + timestamp).

- Instead of all CSS inline, it might prevent the flash of a white-screen if the styling was saved/cached in css file, or the prefers-color-scheme tag.

- You've added an

tag but styled it with a font-size smaller than your body text, this makes it lose it semantics (i.e. also no SEO/UX value).

New comment by numinix in "Osgint – OSINT tool to find information about GitHub user"

numinix — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 13:27:06 +0000

How can you tell? This website doesn't explain what the product is, how it works, or even bother with a privacy policy.

New comment by numinix in "Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox"

numinix — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:34:46 +0000

Can someone elaborate on what this means? Has Mozilla completely abandoned the "privacy" focus? I.e. should I stop recommending the browser and find an alternative? Deleting sentences like "We never sell your data" is for a long-time fan of the browser very alarming. But frankly I'm confused by the PR/blogs and can't tell from the privacy policy if/how it now allows selling my data.

New comment by numinix in "Every .gov Domain"

numinix — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:45:32 +0000

The parish council websites seem to have a lot of freedom to run their own standards. Lots of WP and shall we say 'nostalgic' web design!

New comment by numinix in "Sid Meier's Civilization VII"

numinix — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 10:41:55 +0000

I fell for the €30 upsell so I could play it this weekend and get the extra maps and civs. Unfortunately, Steam errored the transaction, so now I'm out my money with no game, waiting for support to resolve it. I was glad for the macos release and wanted to support (and play!), but I've learnt my lesson on handing over control before the product is delivered. I'll wait for the UX/UI updates and a price drop, still plenty of fun to be had in civ5.

New comment by numinix in "Show HN: I Created a Pomodoro Timer"

numinix — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 12:45:22 +0000

Looks really nice and I love the domain name, well done!

I see there isn't a privacy policy yet, what do you use the account sections for? Also, what is happening in the code comments, is the JS written by AI? For the branding - you're missing some tomatoes! Maybe as a favicon, or fa-tomato instead of fa-briefcase?

New comment by numinix in "Reverse engineering my #1 Hacker News article"

numinix — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 22:23:15 +0000

The title "I've acquired a new superpower" might have the most virality, but it's not a great title for users. Chasing viral content doesn't have to be bad, but you do often get this imbalance between clicks vs UX.

New comment by numinix in "I ditched the algorithm for RSS"

numinix — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:37:23 +0000

In an effort to bypass Google News and broaden my media bubble - I tried to find RSS feeds from our national newspapers. Most had RSS at some point, but almost none still had it running.

New comment by numinix in "Why can't India have it's own OpenAI?"

numinix — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:56:48 +0000

> The lessons here are very specifically from one company and a very specific kind of a horse-race

Yes, pretty disappointing article that never addresses the title.